System dynamics modeling for complex urban water systems: Application to the city of Tabriz, Iran

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Zarghami ◽  
Simin Akbariyeh
Keyword(s):  
System Dynamics ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
System Dynamics Modeling ◽  
Dynamics Modeling ◽  
Urban Water Systems ◽  
The City

Greening and Cooling the City Using Novel Urban Water Systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 431-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Winker ◽  
Simon Gehrmann ◽  
Engelbert Schramm ◽  
Martin Zimmermann ◽  
Annette Rudolph-Cleff
Keyword(s):  
Water Systems ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urban Water Systems ◽  
The City

Use of Nonlinear Membership Functions and the Water Stress Index for the Environmentally Conscious Management of Urban Water Systems: Application to the City of Morelia

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 7752-7760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio A. Medina-González ◽  
Ma. Guadalupe Rojas-Torres ◽  
José M. Ponce-Ortega ◽  
Antonio Espuña ◽  
Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez
Keyword(s):  
Water Stress ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Stress Index ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Membership Functions ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Water Stress Index ◽  
Urban Water Systems ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Ablutionary Urbanisms: Water Infrastructures, Cultural Production and Charitable Dispensation

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brook Muller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Urban Water Systems ◽  
The City

With interest in advancing inclusive urban landscapes and guided by principles of social and cultural sustainability, this essay speculates as to localized water infrastructures as “ablutionary urbanisms,” important forms of contemporary design expression in a context of rapid growth, widening inequalities, climate change and lack of resilience. It derives inspiration from vernacular precedents in advocating for an integrated, decentralized approach to addressing current urban water challenges. It explores the contemporary relevance of the sabil, a prominent civic feature of Islamic cities intended for the charitable dispensation of water. More specifically, this essay considers the contemporary relevance and potency of the sabil-kuttab, a hybrid building type unique to the city of Cairo in which a school (kuttab) sits atop a sabil. Such a type offers helpful guidance in devising principles and precepts relevant to contemporary infrastructural design in that: (1) it offers encouragement to advocate for distributed urban water systems as civically prominent elements of cities, particularly as these systems combine with other important community-focused programmatic features; and (2) given a reimagining of urban water systems as critical forms of cultural production, it offers encouragement for interdisciplinary teams to commit to the task of infrastructure planning as a promising locus of integrative design.

The Utilization of System Dynamics in the Environment: an Example of Waste Management from the City of Znojmo

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-227
Author(s):  
Michal Plaček ◽  
Milan Půček ◽  
Stanislav Čurda
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
System Dynamic Model ◽  
System Dynamics Modeling ◽  
Dynamics Modeling ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Biodegradable Waste ◽  
Modern Methods ◽  
The City

This article deals with applying modern methods of management, particularly benchmarking and system dynamics, to the area of waste management for the city Znojmo. Within the analysis, we focus on the following specific aims: (1) carry out an analysis of waste management utilizing benchmarking, (2) analyze the produced amount of biodegradable waste in Znojmo, (3) describe particular sub-models in relation to biodegradable waste and establish a system dynamic model for dealing with biodegradable waste, which is based on following sub-models. We utilized the following methods: an analysis of resources, benchmarking, structured interviews with experts, objectification of the analysis, and system dynamics modeling of the process. The results are in addition to the analyzed data and applied benchmarking , in particular the diagram of causal loops, which can serve as a tool for a dynamic model and finally help to alert the responsible managers to the basic causalities and links in extremely complex systems such as waste management.

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